Kimetsu no Yaiba is a heartfelt story about a boy stripped from his bliss and pushed into a world of utter hell by an unexpected misfortune. Though we have seen stories like this countless of times, Kimetsu no Yaiba innovates it and sets a new bar for shows like this by delivering it with fantastic writing, a perfectly fit beautifully haunting score, meticulous direction and terrific voice acting.
The show's 26-episode journey starts and ends with great pacing. This is done with a riveting story and fully realized characters introduced and explored attentively. Our main character, from the starting isn't given a true break which helps the viewer to not loose focus in the anime. The main cast of the series are given something to do or prepare for and thus evolving. As a character, Tanjiro is pure but refreshingly not innocent. He, quite often, uses his intelligence and intuition to get out of situations where on brute strength for which he has trained for will not suffice. The story sees an unbalanced and insincere mind as a weakness and it presents this through it's characters.
One aspect where Kimetsu no Yaiba excels at is their animation. It sets a new bar for action scenes in anime with inspirational and visionary direction. The choreography of the fight scenes are genius and casts a shadow on its contemporaries. The biggest factor to why I'm drawn to the fight scenes is because of its capability in projecting the emotion of whatever the characters are going through at the time through stellar and meticulous animation.
This is a minor example of what the show has to offer with it's animation.Another great thing about the anime is it's ability to balance factors such as humor, tribulations, desperation, loss, courage, kindness etc. without them awkwardly overlapping each other. Everything seems well-timed. This is because of the terrific writing it delivers that understands how a story can be cohesive, captive and well-told. The interactions between the characters seem genuine and though the story dwells in fantasy, it presents ideas, relationships characters that are grounded easy to connect to.
The soundtrack should not be overlooked. It's memorable and it stands out due to it's distinction compared to other anime while perfectly flowing in with the show's visuals and writing. It sounds as if this soundtrack is uniquely created for the show and wouldn't work elsewhere.
Kimetsu no Yaiba starts and ends without a dull moment and all the targets this show attempts to make, it succeeds in hitting precisely. ufolab's hardwork and skill does not go unnoticed. Hope to see more from this studio and especially excited for the continuation of this anime.